Mayo allegedly took $ to play for USC? No way!

by TheMightyErik on May 13, 2009 4:44 AM EDT

Yeah. Here we go. As if many couldn't figure out by themselves that recruiting one of the most top-tier high school athletes to a basketball squad that had little going for it at the time might raise some eyebrows we now have this:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4162444

We all know that the Reggie Bush thing has been dragged out to one of the most ridiculous timeframes ever we see that the men of Troy may be in real deep trouble over their basketball program. This is moving along in a much more expedient fashion and could cost them plenty in the next few years.

Many people say under our breath that many programs have some dirt in them and that it may happens in every school but when the head coach is allegedly passing envelopes of cash to 'handlers' on some street corner I think a big ass hammer drop is in order to teach a lesson.

The 'one year and off to the NBA draft' is much to blame for this, in my opinion. I am so damn thankful that that clown Clarett was crushed in his attempt to ammend the NFL policy of early NFL entry or more of this kind of thing would be happening in the NCAAF world.

In closing:

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USC is in so much trouble

That Tim Floyd even had to back a way from this guy to ensure it did not get any worse.

by STU Boy on May 13, 2009 8:15 AM EDT reply actions

This just in....

JoePa is old…

The fact that the NCAA let this go on is a joke. They did nothing with the Reggie Bush scandal and have turned the other cheek with Mayo. I would love to see the death penalty for USC football and basketball (and by death penalty i’m referring to the sancation droped on SMU back in the 80’s when they lost their program….they still haven’t recovered).

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by QBsneak12 on May 13, 2009 8:56 AM EDT reply actions

will never happen

USC has way too much history to get the death penalty. I remember reading the decisions for SMU and Alabama for Sports Law and Alabama’s infractions were WAY more severe than SMU’s but they did not get the death penalty simply because of their tradition.

by psupride on May 13, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions

clarifying on Alabama...

Alabama wasn’t given the death penalty primarily because they weren’t cited for ‘lack of institutional control’ after cooperating with the investigation, not because of tradition or being a big name program …. in fact, other institutions with infractions as or more severe than Alabama’s (such as Michigan) were not given as harsh a penalty. I’m no ’Bammer but they got hosed and were penalized more harshly than warranted by any precedent.. NCAA made an example of them.

All that being said, you’re right, it’s highly improbable USC would get the death penalty.

by Lanebc2 on May 13, 2009 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Plus

I think it’s generally acknowledged that the NCAA made a mistake with how they handled SMU. Most people seem to think that the punishment was just way to harsh, I mean, it literally killed SMU football. I don’t see the NCAA giving any school the death penalty again.

by Brett Brown on May 13, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions

To an extent, yes.

But in 2009, I find it hard to believe that a well-funded school like SMU in the football-crazy town of Dallas can’t field a team that’s competitive in Conference USA. It’s been 25 years since the death penalty and almost 15 years since the breakup of the Southwestern Conference, any direct after effects of these events have long since passed. They should be able to field a team of marginal quality every year and are unable to do so. It’s incompetence.

by Cairo on May 13, 2009 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Your right

At this point its definitely just an excuse, especially when you consider that teams that didn’t even exist back when SMU was given the death penalty (such as USF) have built themselves competitive teams. It definitely set them back quite bit though and you can’t deny that if SMU just lost some scholarships and still had a somewhat competitive team in the early nineties, they would have been at least considered for a spot in the Big 12 instead of Baylor or Texas Tech just based off of tradition and would be far better off today.

by Brett Brown on May 13, 2009 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Smells Funny

With all of the hype surrounding Mayo and his recruiting, I knew that there was something fishy with his choice to attend USC. I mean, USC isn’t really known as a traditional basketball powerhouse when compared to their cross-town rivals and the teams along Tobacco Row, so having the nation’s top recruit sign at a random school like USC just struck me as odd. I think that the hammer is going to fall on USC, but the pathetic wwl won’t pay it any mind, because that is one of their cash-cows, especially now with their ridiculous LA studios.

by Bob Sacamano on May 13, 2009 9:02 AM EDT reply actions

What is the punishment...

…if the NCAA finds the school guilty of “negligence” or whatever? Is it going to change anything? Probably not. It’s U$C. Anyone surprised by this lives under a rock. The school is centered in the heathenistic center of the US. I would expect it there.

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by amandakt on May 13, 2009 10:01 AM EDT reply actions

USC moved to Vegas?

by The JuggerNitt on May 13, 2009 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions

it hink the only place

i’d be less surprised of this whole anything happening at would be vegas.

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by amandakt on May 13, 2009 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions

are you referring to the 'City of the Angels?'

I rarely see acts of debachery, depravity, lasciviousness or otherwise lewd or questionable behavior out here. We are all fine, God fearing, upstanding ~~US citizens~~ residents of this fine area.

…ok, ok… there was only so long I could ramble on with the fiction. Yeah, you’re right. If there is a den of of all evil and a bonafide concrete laden sin factory I live roughly 30 miles west of it.

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by TheMightyErik on May 13, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions

30 miles west of LA?

Isn’t that the Pacific Ocean? Perhaps you live on a small, small boat.

by Cairo on May 13, 2009 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions

My guess is Port Hueneme (or thereabouts)

Though the idea of TME living in a houseboat 30 miles off the coast is pretty amusing

by The JuggerNitt on May 13, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I live 30 miles west of Grain Valley, Missouri

It’s just like Los Angeles. Except when comparing by every conceivable metric devisable by mankind.

As the name suggests, it’s not exactly party central. Still, the name is a conundrum. Founded by the Germans in 1904, scholars maintain that the translation of “Grain Valley” was lost hundreds of years ago.

by Cairo on May 13, 2009 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Doesn’t it mean “Valley of the Grain”

by Bob Sacamano on May 13, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm sorry, I was trying to impress you. I don't know what it means.

by Cairo on May 13, 2009 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

When in Rome…

by Bob Sacamano on May 13, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes?

Perhaps TME lives on an old old wooden ship named “Diversity” 30 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.

by Cairo on May 13, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Ha Ha

I love some good Burgundy quotes

by Bob Sacamano on May 13, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions

well, to put the mystery to an end... I reside in the beautiful town of

Agoura Hills, California. If only I had jumped in early on BSD I would be living in a large yacht off the coast of Baja where MIke, Ruts, and Kevin park theirs but I guess timing is everything.

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by TheMightyErik on May 13, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Heh.

The link provides a Google Street view of a highway underpass. Are you transient?

by Cairo on May 13, 2009 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions

wow... so it does... way to go Google. lol

nah… I have a nice little house on a decent piece of property that would probably fit inside Mike’s pool house but we can’t all be blogmasters

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by TheMightyErik on May 13, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions

A HA!

So Mike tricked us into thinking the grotto was near his house when it was on his ocean liner all along!

by dawsonPSU10 on May 13, 2009 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions

I"M ON A BOAT

I’M ON A BOAT…everybody look at me ‘cuz I’m sailin’ on a boat.

Take a good hard look at the m f’in boat!

by NittanyBadger on May 15, 2009 12:54 AM EDT up reply actions

The strike over US citizens was a nice touch

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by ReadingRambler on May 13, 2009 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions

TME to the Fanpost!

Awesome closing dude! I rec’d the whole thing on the merits of closing arguments alone.

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by jtothep on May 13, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions